Thank you for taking the time to share your insights. Your letter hangs on my cubicle and me and the gang like to take a moment each day to laugh at your bright-eyed naivete.

First of all, the very concept of "nature" is a social construct. Your hollow gesture is the marketing equivalent of writing "all natural" on a Big Mac. I think "greenwashing" is the term the hippies are using now, as if taking bong hits and coming up with clever labels makes them enlightened.

Soon enough you will learn that the whole world is a cluster fark of muddled meanings and half truths.

By the way, the fossil fuels used to transport your letter caused far more damage than your original gesture of accidentally taking two sticks from Yosemite.

Actually, after having examined the sticks in question, we have found that they are not in fact native to the Yosemite area and are covered with a wildlife-eating spore that was must have been introduced from your end. By having removed them, you may have in fact prevented a kudzu-esque overtaking of our native species. Alas, since you returned them the seeds and spores have been released. I am afraid you have reopened Pandora's box and the plague-beast has been unleashed. Thanks to your meddling, the world or "nature" as you so naively envisioned it, will soon cease to exist.

Anyway, thanks for being a Junior Ranger! I have enclosed a new Smokey The Bear STOMP OUT FOREST FIRE BADGE, which being plastic sickens me. Don't even get me started about the benefits of fire in revitalizing the ecosystem.

The sticks will be returned back to their home, where they will promptly begin their process of decomposition due to the abuse given to them by Mother Nature. Or some wild animal will kidnap them and use them for some unknown and possibly deviant purpose. At least in her home, they would have been kept in an ecologically stable place where they will be sheltered from the elements. She's sent them back to a dysfunctional family.Good job, Evie.

Thank you for taking the time to share your insights. Your letter hangs on my cubicle and me and the gang like to take a moment each day to laugh at your bright-eyed naivete.

First of all, the very concept of "nature" is a social construct. Your hollow gesture is the marketing equivalent of writing "all natural" on a Big Mac. I think "greenwashing" is the term the hippies are using now, as if taking bong hits and coming up with clever labels makes them enlightened.

Soon enough you will learn that the whole world is a cluster fark of muddled meanings and half truths.

By the way, the fossil fuels used to transport your letter caused far more damage than your original gesture of accidentally taking two sticks from Yosemite.

Actually, after having examined the sticks in question, we have found that they are not in fact native to the Yosemite area and are covered with a wildlife-eating spore that was must have been introduced from your end. By having removed them, you may have in fact prevented a kudzu-esque overtaking of our native species. Alas, since you returned them the seeds and spores have been released. I am afraid you have reopened Pandora's box and the plague-beast has been unleashed. Thanks to your meddling, the world or "nature" as you so naively envisioned it, will soon cease to exist.

Anyway, thanks for being a Junior Ranger! I have enclosed a new Smokey The Bear STOMP OUT FOREST FIRE BADGE, which being plastic sickens me. Don't even get me started about the benefits of fire in revitalizing the ecosystem.

The ranger posted this on Reddit originally. He mentioned that he'd take pictures of the sticks in different locations in the forest and send them to Evie to decide where they should ultimately end up.

Thank you for taking the time to share your insights. Your letter hangs on my cubicle and me and the gang like to take a moment each day to laugh at your bright-eyed naivete.

First of all, the very concept of "nature" is a social construct. Your hollow gesture is the marketing equivalent of writing "all natural" on a Big Mac. I think "greenwashing" is the term the hippies are using now, as if taking bong hits and coming up with clever labels makes them enlightened.

Soon enough you will learn that the whole world is a cluster fark of muddled meanings and half truths.

By the way, the fossil fuels used to transport your letter caused far more damage than your original gesture of accidentally taking two sticks from Yosemite.

Actually, after having examined the sticks in question, we have found that they are not in fact native to the Yosemite area and are covered with a wildlife-eating spore that was must have been introduced from your end. By having removed them, you may have in fact prevented a kudzu-esque overtaking of our native species. Alas, since you returned them the seeds and spores have been released. I am afraid you have reopened Pandora's box and the plague-beast has been unleashed. Thanks to your meddling, the world or "nature" as you so naively envisioned it, will soon cease to exist.

Anyway, thanks for being a Junior Ranger! I have enclosed a new Smokey The Bear STOMP OUT FOREST FIRE BADGE, which being plastic sickens me. Don't even get me started about the benefits of fire in revitalizing the ecosystem.

Pocket Ninja:If removing sticks from national parkland constitutes some sort of grave offense, my dog is one of the most wanted creatures in the nation.

The rule I was always taught in scouts was that you can take rocks and such from National Forests, but never from National Parks or Monuments because they get too many visitors for everyone to be taking part of the park home.

Luckily, most of the latter don't let you even leave the parking lots with your dog.

Thank you for taking the time to share your insights. Your letter hangs on my cubicle and me and the gang like to take a moment each day to laugh at your bright-eyed naivete.

First of all, the very concept of "nature" is a social construct. Your hollow gesture is the marketing equivalent of writing "all natural" on a Big Mac. I think "greenwashing" is the term the hippies are using now, as if taking bong hits and coming up with clever labels makes them enlightened.

Soon enough you will learn that the whole world is a cluster fark of muddled meanings and half truths.

By the way, the fossil fuels used to transport your letter caused far more damage than your original gesture of accidentally taking two sticks from Yosemite.

Actually, after having examined the sticks in question, we have found that they are not in fact native to the Yosemite area and are covered with a wildlife-eating spore that was must have been introduced from your end. By having removed them, you may have in fact prevented a kudzu-esque overtaking of our native species. Alas, since you returned them the seeds and spores have been released. I am afraid you have reopened Pandora's box and the plague-beast has been unleashed. Thanks to your meddling, the world or "nature" as you so naively envisioned it, will soon cease to exist.

Anyway, thanks for being a Junior Ranger! I have enclosed a new Smokey The Bear STOMP OUT FOREST FIRE BADGE, which being plastic sickens me. Don't even get me started about the benefits of fire in revitalizing the ecosystem.

This is cute, but not unheard of. People send rocks back to Petrified Forest all of the time, convinced that there is a curse attached, and apologizing profusely for removing them in the first place. This is two little sticks. Imagine getting a 250 pound hunk of petrified wood in the mail...

Thank you for taking the time to share your insights. Your letter hangs on my cubicle and me and the gang like to take a moment each day to laugh at your bright-eyed naivete.

First of all, the very concept of "nature" is a social construct. Your hollow gesture is the marketing equivalent of writing "all natural" on a Big Mac. I think "greenwashing" is the term the hippies are using now, as if taking bong hits and coming up with clever labels makes them enlightened.

Soon enough you will learn that the whole world is a cluster fark of muddled meanings and half truths.

By the way, the fossil fuels used to transport your letter caused far more damage than your original gesture of accidentally taking two sticks from Yosemite.

Actually, after having examined the sticks in question, we have found that they are not in fact native to the Yosemite area and are covered with a wildlife-eating spore that was must have been introduced from your end. By having removed them, you may have in fact prevented a kudzu-esque overtaking of our native species. Alas, since you returned them the seeds and spores have been released. I am afraid you have reopened Pandora's box and the plague-beast has been unleashed. Thanks to your meddling, the world or "nature" as you so naively envisioned it, will soon cease to exist.

Anyway, thanks for being a Junior Ranger! I have enclosed a new Smokey The Bear STOMP OUT FOREST FIRE BADGE, which being plastic sickens me. Don't even get me started about the benefits of fire in revitalizing the ecosystem.

I hear ya! I made the rookie mistake of buying a house without a crawl space so you can imagine my problem. Thank FSM for the Dead Hooker Storage Bin option on my big rig. Don't know what I would do without it.

I hear ya! I made the rookie mistake of buying a house without a crawl space so you can imagine my problem. Thank FSM for the Dead Hooker Storage Bin option on my big rig. Don't know what I would do without it.

brap:Anyway, thanks for being a Junior Ranger! I have enclosed a new Smokey The Bear STOMP OUT FOREST FIRE BADGE, which being plastic sickens me. Don't even get me started about the benefits of fire in revitalizing the ecosystem.

FOR THE LAST TIME, IT IS NOT SMOKEY THE BEAR! IT IS SMOKEY BEAR!!!/GGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

Benq:The ranger posted this on Reddit originally. He mentioned that he'd take pictures of the sticks in different locations in the forest and send them to Evie to decide where they should ultimately end up.

Ha! Now that's funny.

sure haven't:Since I have no faith in the USA, I'll assume she was arrested.

While doing a tour on Mackinac Island (about 80% is a state park) the guide warned us to not pick up any thing including sticks, rocks and flowers. The morality story was about a kid who picked some wild flowers for his mommy and they were fined for each weed the little boy picked.